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Xia dao Gao Fei (Full Contact) (1993)

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Average Rating: 6.9/10
Reviews Counted: 8
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Release Date: Jan 1, 1992 Wide

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Another entry into the "cheer for the most likeable bad guy" series of Hong Kong action flicks, Full Contact tells the oft-told tale of betrayal and revenge, but serves it up as a potent cocktail of Western convention mixed with the trademarked Hong Kong style. When Jeff's (Hong Kong superstar Chow Yun Fat in true hard-case form) friend Sam (Anthony Wong) steps on the feet of a local loan shark, Jeff comes to his rescue, creating a powerful enemy in the vengeful gangster. Seeking to skip town

R, 1 hr. 39 min.

Drama, Action & Adventure, Art House & International

Directed By: Ringo Lam

Written By: Yin Nam

In Theaters: Jan 1, 1992 Wide

On DVD: Nov 7, 2000

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Critic Reviews for Xia dao Gao Fei (Full Contact)

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Clearly this is a movie made in a world where the "MPAA" holds no sway; the violence is intensely brutal. In a good way, though.

April 11, 2004 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com

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Scott Weinberg

eFilmCritic.com

With Full Contact, Lam takes the action genre and proceeds to not merely transcend it but explode it.

March 30, 2003 Full Review | Comment

Beth Accomando

KPBS.org

Lots of mayhem, and that's what's great about it. Chow is at his most charismatic.

February 23, 2003 Comment

Dan Lybarger

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Not a classic but still a fun ride from the pre-hollywood days of Ringo Lam and Chow Yun Fat. Also, great performance by Simon Yam as the charismatic over-the-top villian.

September 6, 2007

Tsubaki Sanjuro

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"Full Contacti" is a conventional story of betrayal/revenge as many others we haven seen on the screen. The differential of this movie are the great action scenes. The choreography of the fights is amazing and stylish sequences of the bullets in a gun shot. This story is conventional and forgettable, but also a worthwhile entertainment.

June 14, 2010